News
NEW ARTICLE: The Digitalization Trap
22.01.2018
- - Ane Teksum Isbrekken
Digitalization of poor countries is a good thing, but too little attention has been paid to the accompanying problems, according to NUPI Senior Research Fellow Niels Nagelhus Schia.
Publication : ARTIKKEL
The cyber frontier and digital pitfalls in the Global South
2018
- - Niels Nagelhus Schia
How does digitalisation lead to new kinds of global connections and disconnections in the Global South? And what are the pitfalls that accompany this development? Much of the policy literature on digitalisation and development has focused on the importance of connecting developing countries to digital...
Publication : MONOGRAFI
Franchised States and the Bureaucracy of Peace
2018
- - Niels Nagelhus Schia
This book examines a new type of state formation evoked by the rise of transnational rule, what Schia calls franchised states. Turning the UN into a field site and drawing on an anthropological fieldwork of the UN organization, he demonstrates how peacebuilding activities turned Liberia into an object...
News
PODCAST: How to govern cyberspace?
13.12.2017
- - Ane Teksum Isbrekken
Marina Kaljurand shares five lessons from the aftermath of the 2007 cyber attacks on Estonia.
News
The Wire Approach to the UN
11.12.2017
- - Ane Teksum Isbrekken
What can ‘The Wire’ and McDonald's teach us about the UN?
Tue 16 Jan 2018
Event
Cyber Intelligence and Nordic Security

Time: 13:00 Location: NUPI

Cyber threats increasingly affect the security and prosperity of Nordic states, including Norway. Through this event NUPI's Cyber Security Centre will highlight where these threats come from, and the role of cyber intelligence.
Fri 8 Dec 2017
Event
Global governance of cyberspace - opportunities and challenges

Time: 10:00 Location: NUPI

What are the biggest global challenges to the stability of cyberspace today? To what extent can norms and policy development guide responsible state and non-state behavior in cyberspace? And what are the best arenas for producing such norms and guidance?
News

President of Estonia on cyber security

18.10.2017
What does Estonia see as the most pressing challenges to the global stability of cyber space?
Mon 16 Oct 2017
Event
Estonia's president on security in the Baltic Sea region

Time: 12:15 Location: NUPI

Estonia plays an important role in Europe’s relationship to Russia. The president of Estonia visits NUPI to give some insight in the security challenges in the area.
News
An unsecure web of things
24.03.2017
- - Ane Teksum Isbrekken
How do you know if your new TV with an integrated camera is secure?
Publication : NUPI Policy Brief
China's Cyber Sovereignty
2017
- - Niels Nagelhus Schia
- - Lars Gjesvik
This policy brief analyses China’s ambitions for imposing and strengthening the concept of cyber sovereignty in international negotiations on topics related to cybersecurity and Internet governance (IG). The presentation proceeds through four interconnected steps: 1. brief introduction and background...
Thu 23 Mar 2017
Event
Theory seminar: Attribution and international society in cyber security

Time: 13:15 Location: NUPI

In this theory seminar Dr Madeline Carr will present her paper on attribution and international society in cyber security as understood by Hedley Bull where she uses cyber space as a case study.
Research project

Upholding the NATO cyber pledge: What does cyber deterrence and cyber resilience mean for NATO and Norway?

2017 (Completed)

The aim of this project is to explore how and to what extent deterrence works in cyberspace or whether a focus on resilience as the new strategic logic is the way forward.
Publication : Del av bok/rapport
Horseshoe and Catwalk: Power, Complexity and Consensus-making in the United Nations Security Council
2017
- - Niels Nagelhus Schia
This volume assembles in one place the work of scholars who are making key contributions to a new approach to the United Nations, and to global organizations and international politics more generally. Anthropology has in recent years taken on global organizations as a legitimate source of its subject...
Publication : KRONIKK
Det frie internettet er under angrep
2017
- - Niels Nagelhus Schia
- - Lars Gjesvik
Kronikk: Kina og Russland prøver allerede å ta kontroll over «sitt» internett. Vil Vesten nå, etter USA-hackingen og foran vårens valg i Europa, følge etter? This op-ed is published in Norwegian only.
Thu 26 Jan 2017
Event
Theory seminar: Applying Old Rules to New Cases: International Law in the Cyber Domain

Time: 13:15 Location: NUPI

NUPI has the pleasure of inviting you to a seminar with Mark Raymond, Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma.
Publication : KRONIKK
Trusselen fra cyberspace
2017
- - Niels Nagelhus Schia
- - Lilly Pijnenburg Muller
(Op-ed in Norwegian only): Cyberangrep øker i omfang verden over. Norge er et av verdens mest digitaliserte land og dermed spesielt utsatt, men dette blir i stor grad oversett av politikere og næringslivsledere.
Publication : ARTIKKEL
The Cyber Frontier
2016
- - Niels Nagelhus Schia
The cyber frontier perspective serves to explicate that the Global South’s participation in digitalization is not simply a matter of joining cyberspace. On the contrary, it is a matter of selective forms of global connection in combination with disconnection and exclusion. I contextualize security concerns...
News
The cyber-frontier
10.08.2016
- - Ane Teksum Isbrekken
How does digitalization lead to new kinds of global connections and disconnections in the developing countries? And which role does digitalization play for the UN's sustainable development goals? NUPI researchers set out to explore this in a new research project that maps cybersecurity in the Global...
Research project

Cybersecurity Capacity Building 2.0 - Bridging the digital divide and strengthening sustainable development

2016 - 2018 (Completed)

This project will study cybersecurity capacity building (CCB) and the sustainability of development processes in developing countries.